OddThinking

Voice recognition works particularly well when the computer knows what you are trying to say, and just needs to track along with you. Which leads to an idea for a plug-in for commenters – not for this web-site, but for some others that I frequent. You can tell this idea is half-arsed, as I haven’t […]

I have been listening to organisations demanding that we defend our human right to die with dignity.

I find myself unable to support them.

Some Unicode characters are just calling for a caption competition. Ṏ “Latin capital letter o with tilde and diaeresis”? Is that the best you can do, Unicode Consortium?

Without performing any research, I solve a problem facing artists, for a cut.

I have decided to abandon screen, and am returning to having to re-login each day.

I am filing this under “I am doing Linux wrong, but I don’t know where.”

So, there is this spam web-site, that has grabbed snippets from a number of RSS feeds about Kakuro solvers (including this site), and put them all on one page in the hope of getting some Google juice for a search term. To squeeze some of my Page Rank, it then attempted to leave some pingback […]

Look at media players including YouTube, iPhones, VLC, Windows Media Player, etc.

Underneath the video is a slider bar representing the progress through the movie, and (where applicable for streaming players) how much has downloaded.

It is time for some new widgets to control sound and video.

Realising I had been procrastinating about booking some flights and accommodation, today I went to a travel agent and got it done.

A travel agent. Bricks and mortar.

Odd.

I was just reminiscing about when I enrolled in Biology 1 at uni. They wanted to get a feel for the mathematical literacy of their students, so they gave us all a quick numeracy test, to see if we understood some basic concepts.

There were only four questions, clearly labelled Question 1, Question 2, Question 4 and Question 4.

I think I met the required standard…

I ask my friends to choose between two items with equal expected value, and no reason to prefer one than the other, and they can’t decide.